For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report:
Under pressure from…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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DOGE wants access to IRS taxpayer data
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Value of government data
While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…
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Hank Azaria on human voices and AI mimicry
Hank Azaria, who does the voices for many characters on The Simpsons, wrote…
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Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov
The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab is archiving Data.gov and making the…
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Download CDC data through Internet Archive
The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was…
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Geographic boundary data and microdata from Census Bureau is offline
As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide…
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Health and climate data purge
For The Verge, Justine Calma reports on the recent takedowns. Some groups have…
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About 8,000 U.S. government pages taken down
The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of…
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Checklist for federal data backups
In preparation for days like this, MIT Libraries has a guide for making…
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Preserving government data before it disappears completely
Groups at universities and research labs are forming to preserve data. Naseem Miller…
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Data.cdc.gov goes offline
As of this evening on January 31, 2025, the data portal for the…
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Census Bureau director resigns, 2025 edition
The Census Bureau director Robert Santos announced his resignation on Thursday:
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Geolocating photos automatically
GeoSpy is an AI tool that geolocates outdoor photos. It’s currently pitched as…
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Falling in love with a chatbot
Possibly related, Kashmir Hill for The New York Times tells the story of…
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Extremely detailed 2024 election data, precinct level
As is tradition, The New York Times published a detailed map of presidential…
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Convergence to sameness in the algorithm
As my father-in-law’s Facebook feed would suggest, the “algorithm” has a way of…
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Seeing the single largest tree in the forest of 400 billion
Fabien Wagner works with CTrees in an effort to map tree canopy height…
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More time on the plane, but more flights arriving early
By just about every metric, flights are slower now than they were 30…
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Probability does not exist
Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages…
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Multiplication mistake leads to exaggerated plastic cautions
There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black…